The Dorchester hotel installs new HR and payroll system

The five-star Dorchester hotel on London’s Park Lane has installed a new HR and payroll system.

Software provider TeamSpirit won the contract to supply its HR and payroll software to replace the existing in-house system from a previous supplier. The new system will handle the payroll for 535 permanent staff and 125 casual staff.

The Dorchester started the search for a new HR and payroll software provider in autumn last year. An external consultant evaluated 10 different suppliers before selecting TeamSpirit. System implementation began in May, with the first live payroll run completed in September 2006.

James Golding, assistant HR manager at the Dorchester, said: “Because you can customise the software yourself, you can tweak it to your exact needs and don’t need to call in an expensive computer programmer each time you want to make a change.”